Our Charities

The Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre (AARC) is a long – term treatment program for chemically dependent adolescents and their families. Success at AARC is a graduate who is clean and sober, back in school or working, and reunited with his or her family.

The Summit Youth Centre – The Summit Youth Centre provides supervised program activities that enhance and support individual growth in our youth (ages 12 to 18). ‘Summit’ offers a healthy activity alternative for youth throughout the year including games, access to computers and the internet, a youth – operated coffee and snack bar offering healthy food, homework support, a social meeting place, sporting activities, workshops on requested topics, movie nights and cooking and nutrition sessions.

Supervision and Leadership is provided both by staff and community volunteers. Youth are also organized through the Summit to contribute to the community by supporting special events such as the Cancer Relay for Life, Light-Up at Christmas and Valley Appreciation Day events. Summit is a safe welcoming place in which positive values and actions are modeled and encouraged while high risk behaviours are discouraged. It gives the youth of the valley the support they need to become contributing, healthy and active citizens.

The Hockey Canada Skills Academy

Elementary & High School Hockey Academy – The Hockey Canada Skills Academy operates within J.A. Laird Elementary and David Thompson Secondary Schools in Invermere, BC. It provides students with a unique opportunity to combine exercise and education. The focus is on hockey and fostering hockey skills within each student at their particular skill level. 60% of the students are non-minor hockey players. The on-ice sessions is one aspect of the fitness component within the Hockey Academy with Firefighter Fitness Tests, Cardiovascular training with heart monitors and various Plyometrics workouts rounding out the remainder. In the 2010 – 2011 school year, the programs inaugural year, the school noticed an overall improvement in the student’s academic achievements.

We send our guests off after the last game of golf on the 2nd day with a Toast to them – a Cheers to making a difference and bringing Hope into the lives of todays youth.